(Career Progress) LCV is Hiring a Vice President of Building Grassroots Power!

LCV is hiring a Vice President of Building Grassroots Power to help us expand and deepen our grassroots community organizing programs. The position is responsible for strengthening and proliferating grassroots community organizing programs, particularly focused in communities of color, and ensuring that we create a multiplier-effect with other LCV and LCV Education Fund strategies to build power, combat the climate crisis and create a participatory democracy. This role requires an intensely creative and strategic thinker who can draw on years of organizing and issue campaign experience and who is focused on how to build a grassroots base that can urge decision-makers to take unprecedented bold action to confront climate change. Deadline to apply is March 18^th

 

Thanks!

 

Frances

Title: Vice President of Building Grassroots Power

Status: Exempt

Reports To: Senior Vice President of Community and Civic Engagement

Positions Reporting to this Position: Chispa National Director, Director of Cultural Strategies

Location: Flexible

 

General Description:

LCV believes our earth is worth fighting for because everyone has a right to clean air, water, and a safe, healthy community. To ensure those rights are protected, we help people use their power to shape policy, hold politicians and polluters accountable, and influence elections.

 

Our over 2 million members, our volunteers and staff, and our more than 30 state affiliates (together, the Conservation Voter Movement) work for a more just and equitable democracy, where people—not polluters—determine our future. This movement is an influential national network with unparalleled influence in Washington, DC, in state capitals, and in communities around the country.

 

Grassroots community organizing, particularly with communities of color, is one of our core strategies to strengthen and grow the movement necessary to combat climate change. To help us expand and deepen LCV’s and our network’s grassroots community organizing programs we have developed a new position: the Vice President of Building Grassroots Power. The position is responsible for strengthening and proliferating grassroots community organizing programs, particularly focused in communities of color, and ensuring that we create a multiplier-effect with other LCV and LCV Education Fund strategies to build power, combat the climate crisis and create a participatory democracy. This role requires an intensely creative and strategic thinker who can draw on years of organizing and issue campaign experience and who is focused on how to build a grassroots base that can urge decision-makers to take unprecedented bold action to confront climate change. 

 

This position reports to the Senior Vice President of Community and Civic Engagement, directly oversees Chispa, a multi-state climate justice community organizing program primarily focused in Latinx communities, as well a new, growing program focused on integrating cultural strategies throughout LCV and LCVEF.

 

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Chispa National Director to help strengthen and grow the state Chispa programs, Chispa’s national impact and visibility, and Chispa’s organizing model.
• Assist with fundraising, including cultivating individual donors, building relationships with foundations and working with staff to produce high-quality proposals, updates and reports.
• Work with the Director of Cultural Strategies to make cultural organizing (the fusion of arts, culture and advocacy) as an integral, standard practice of LCV’s organizing and advocacy.
• Provide guidance and tools, including organizing models, that can help state affiliates launch or grow grassroots community organizing programs focused on constituencies that have been excluded from the environmental policy decisions that disproportionately affect their lives.
• Work with the VP of Civic Engagement to develop creative strategies and tactics to integrate grassroots community organizing with large-scale voter registration and turn-out programs.
• Work with national and state organizing directors to develop consistent leadership development ladders and shareable youth and adult learning curriculum relevant to state and national campaigns.
• Develop consistent and effective onboarding and training for state and national community organizers and professional development and growth opportunities that establish organizing as a long term career.
• Oversee the research, testing and evaluation of the organizing methodology and impacts.
• Oversee the fiscal management of several programs and track multiple budgets effectively.
• Be part of the Community & Civic Engagement department’s senior leadership team, management team, actively participate as a thought leader in the Conservation Voter Movement and contribute to building an inclusive organizational culture.
• Engage with the environmental, social, economic and racial justice movements to build transformational and deeply collaborative partnerships.

 

Qualifications:

• Work Experience: Minimum of 10 years experience, with at least 7 years in leadership and management roles, in a community-based organization, labor union, organizing network or similar organization. Dedicated, creative, high-level career community organizer. Proven success as a supervisor, developer of leaders, coach and/or mentor. Track record of developing, evaluating and recalibrating issue campaigns that grow a grassroots base and make a difference in working families and communities of color everyday lives. Effectively raised foundation grants and cultivated support from individual donors. Experience working across departments to build organization-wide alignment and coordination and with state affiliates. Experience with program budget management.
• Skills: Visionary, creative, strategic thinker who can get in the details to solve problems and quickly jump up to refocus on the bigger picture. Excellent interpersonal skills, enthusiasm, and emotional intelligence. Independent, self-motivated and able to drive projects to completion in a fast-paced, complex environment. Excellent writing, training, and communication skills and the ability to move groups to agreement and decisions. Results and metrics oriented, a team-builder, highly organized and responsive. Solid understanding of different organizing models and what they accomplish. Ability to plan a vision for staff development, especially community organizers. Familiarity with the IRS rules regarding 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and PACs preferred.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about differences, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. A complex understanding of racial justice and the urgency of confronting institutional racism and inequity. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Proven track record of successfully working across lines of race, immigration status, ethnicity, language, class, gender and other identities and experiences.
• Conditions: Willingness and ability to travel regularly (up to 2-3 times/month) for site visits, training, affiliate engagement as well as internal staff meetings and LCV events. The location of this position is flexible.

 

To Apply: Send resume and cover letter to hr@lcv.org with “VP Grassroots Power” in the subject line by March 18, 2020. No phone calls please.

 

LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable and inclusive workplace.